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THE FIFTH BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
<span class=large>DEUTERONOMY</span>
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CHAPTER 2
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Israel presses forward to their promised land—They pass through lands of Esau and of Ammon in peace, but destroy Amorites.
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Then</span> we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> spake unto me: and we compassed mount <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/2/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 35: 2 (1-15).">Seir</a> many days.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> spake unto me, saying,
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Ye have <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/2/3a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB gone around this mountain region, or hill country.">compassed</a> this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
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And command thou the people, saying, Ye <i>are</i> to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore:
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Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/2/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Lands of Inheritance.">land</a>, no, not so much as a foot <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/2/5b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB tread, step.">breadth</a>; because I have given mount <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/2/5c" mark="c" type="A" title="Gen. 32: 3.">Seir</a> unto Esau <i>for</i> a possession.
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Ye <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/2/6a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB may buy food.">shall</a> buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.
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For the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/2/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hosea 13: 5 (5-8).">knoweth</a> thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God <i>hath been</i> with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
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And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion-gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said unto me, Distress not the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/2/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 19: 37 (30-38); Judg. 11: 15.">Moabites</a>, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land <i>for</i> a possession; because I have given <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/2/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 15: 1.">Ar</a> unto the children of Lot <i>for</i> a possession.
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The <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/2/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 14: 5.">Emims</a> dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/2/10b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE an ancient race of large people; sometimes translated as ‘giants’ (also v. 11, 21).">Anakims</a>;
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Which also were accounted <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/2/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 13: 33; Deut. 3: 11.">giants</a>, as the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/2/11b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 9: 2.">Anakims</a>; but the Moabites call them Emims.
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The <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/2/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 14: 6.">Horims</a> also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/2/12b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB dispossessed.">succeeded</a> them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> gave unto them.
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Now rise up, <i>said I,</i> and get you over the brook Zered.  And we went over the brook Zered.
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And the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/2/14a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB time.">space</a> in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, <i>was</i> thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/2/14b" mark="b" type="A" title="Num. 14: 35 (33-35); Ps. 95: 10 (10-11).">men</a> of war <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/2/14c" mark="c" type="P" title="HEB had perished from the camp.">were</a> wasted out from among the host, as the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> sware unto them.
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For indeed the hand of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.
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&#182; So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
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That the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> spake unto me, saying,
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Thou art to pass over through Ar, the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/2/18a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB territory (also v. 4).">coast</a> of Moab, this day:
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And <i>when</i> thou comest nigh over against the children of <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/2/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 19: 38 (30-38).">Ammon</a>, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/2/19b" mark="b" type="A" title="Num. 21: 25 (21-35); Judg. 11: 13 (13-23).">land</a> of the children of Ammon <i>any</i> possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot <i>for</i> a possession.
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(That also was accounted a land of <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/2/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Moses 8: 18.">giants</a>: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/2/20b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 14: 5.">Zamzummims</a>;
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A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:
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As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day:
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And the Avims which dwelt in <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/2/23a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB villages.">Hazerim</a>, <i>even</i> unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/2/23b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE Crete, from which early Philistines (Caphtorim) migrated to Canaan.">Caphtor</a>, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)
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&#182; Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess <i>it,</i> and contend with him in battle.
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This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/2/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 15: 16 (14-16, 18).">fear</a> of thee upon the nations <i>that are</i> under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.
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&#182; And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
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Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.
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Thou shalt <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/2/28a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 20: 19.">sell</a> me <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/2/28b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB food.">meat</a> for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/2/28c" mark="c" type="P" title="HEB let me pass through on foot.">I</a> will pass through on my feet;
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(As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> our God giveth us.
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But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/2/30a" mark="a" type="A" title="Rom. 9: 18.">hardened</a> his spirit, and made his heart <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/2/30b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Stubbornness.">obstinate</a>, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as <i>appeareth</i> this day.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land.
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Then <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/2/32a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 29: 7 (7-8).">Sihon</a> came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> our God delivered him before us; and we <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/2/33a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 21: 24 (21-24); Deut. 29: 7 (7-8).">smote</a> him, and his sons, and all his people.
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And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/2/34a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 7: 2; 1 Sam. 15: 3.">destroyed</a> the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:
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Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.
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From <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/2/36a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 3: 12; 2 Kgs. 10: 33; Jer. 48: 19.">Aroer</a>, which <i>is</i> by the brink of the river of Arnon, and <i>from</i> the city that <i>is</i> by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> our God <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/2/36b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ps. 44: 3.">delivered</a> all unto us:
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Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, <i>nor</i> unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> our God forbad us.
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